Kirkland to party boats: Shut up, already!

Kirkland would like all the super-fun drunk people floating around on Lake Washington to turn down the volume and break up the party.

KIRO Radio reports that party boats are problematic for Kirkland residents, who are tired of listening to to inebriated “rafters” on the lake. (Rafting, KIRO explains, is when boats are tied together — sometimes as many as 100 in a cluster, rafted together or not.)

That makes for some pretty loud parties, not to mention a heightened danger of rafted boats drifting and colliding with one other.

The Kirkland city council is considering a proposal that would ban the linking of more than two boats on the lake and restrict audio systems that can be heard more than 50 feet away.